Slow Dancing

 

we were a fire hazard

somewhere between here and there

our wires got crossed

and we became an

 elegantly twisted pending disaster-

we could only slow dance in a burning room so long

before our lungs were filled with smoke,

the roof caved in,

and we collapsed.

 

when I wake up everything has changed,

I can breath again-

 

 you are the only one who will ever truly understand- value

what I lost in the fire,

for you too rock-stepped

 to the beautifully tragic chaos-

 

 

slowly I begin to accept talking to anyone else about it

doesn't really help.

I won't see the same relief,

or mirrored pain,

in anyone's eyes but yours.

 



Tribute Tuesday.

 

{Photo Credit: Fred Greenslade}

The way she danced is how she was destined to retire; gracefully.  Karen Kain is quite possibly the best ballet dancer Canada ever produced. If one was lucky enough to have seen her perform they would know the strong technique, insightful musicality, and the audacious attack that characterised every step she took on stage.  For any dancer retirement is a difficult transition. Dancers are highly prone to multiple injuries over the course of their career; thus making ballet a short lived and gruelling profession for most. When Karen Kain performed for her last time with the National Ballet of Canada in October 1997, at the age of 46, there was a distinct bittersweet flavour in the air and the whole nation of Canada could taste it.  In the photograph A Graceful Exit, Fred Greenslade captures, with all the grace and elegance of a ballet, this bittersweet taste. The lighting of this particular photo emphasizes the unknown that Kain is to be entering. Darkness, in the bottom right corner creeping towards the middle gives the effect of looking through a half shut eye, knowing that when you blink the familiarity of the moment will be gone forever.  The worn out curtains in the backdrop to the photo, being the same colour of faded pointe shoes highlights the exhausted threadbare feelings of a mature dancer. The focal point of the photo however is Kains teary eyed expression. The honest raw emotions wrapped up in her face appeal to the eyes and hearts of any spectator.  Greenslade manages to artistically capture the feelings of both Karen Kain and Canadians at the time, without distorting the true grace and beauty of the vulnerable expression exhibited by Kain.

Glad to see you're still alive!!

{Photo Credit: The Ballerina Project}

I am sorry, but as you probably could have guessed blogging had most certainly not been on the top of my "To Do" list lately. I have been working like a crazy person for the past month. When I have moments off, I have been spending them either fulfilling my desperate need to catch up with friends, going to yoga, or sneaking in a chapter or two from my good friend "Harry Potter". So apologizes for not writing but I have been busy!

I have recently started "IMS" treatment at  physio, (inter-muscular stimulation) in attempt to loosen up my left hip which was abnormally tight, and thanks a bunch to Warrior Two, becoming increasingly painful as the days dragged on. I have been having "hip-sues" for a year or so now and even though I have only been to two "IMS" treatments, it is already starting to work miracles. In addition to becoming pain-free the "IMS" has also made me realize just how weak I am in my hip/lower core area. So as a revision of my original summer goal (6:00 ponche) I am now going to focus on strengthening the weaker areas of my body that the "IMS" has unearthed!

A Bit of Summer Love

{photo credit: The Rock School}

Today I am going for my first Hot Yoga class of the summer. I have been planning to go during the summer but was waiting for July to start classes. The long weekend sort of ate up the begining of July so I am starting today. Originally I had planned to go everyday, looking at my work shedual and coordinating it with the yoga studios schedual is harder than I had anticipated and so I will only be able to go Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and some Sundays. I am hoping to improve my flexiblity and strength for when I go back to dance in the fall... (my summer goal: 6:00 ponche)!  I have also been using my time off work to swim in the lake lots which is extreamly exciting, and today I went for a little bike ride around town with a very good friend! In short I am enjoying every bit of summer so far, (especially now that the weather has turned) and I hope you are too!

~Adrianna

Things To Love Thursday

{Photo Credit: The Ballerina Project}

*WHAT TIME IS IT? SUMMER TIME!!!* Summer Music* Swimming* Beaches* Summer Clothes* Anything Summer Basically* Staring my Nannying job in just under one week* Having a shedual for my job made out detailing every ounce of my summer* re-connecting a friend* Vitamin-D* Summer Food... mmm salads and BBQ* Friends prom on the twenty ninth... I think I am more excited to see them than they are for it to happen* Smiles* Hot Yoga* Summer Dance Classes*  

Tribute Tuesday

So today I came across these Nike adds and of corse started thinking...

How much influence has Nike had on the women poweress in sports?

Answer: A LOT 

They made it respectable, cool, beautiful, even sexy for women to be involved in athletic pursuits. I respect this so much, and in the past couple of years (since about 2006) Nike has really been making a case for dance as a sport, (which makes me respect them even more). So as a dancer and a general lover of athleticism here is a tribute to Nike's support for Women!

Visit: Nike Women Homepage